{"id":9853,"date":"2013-02-06T17:35:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T01:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9853"},"modified":"2013-02-06T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T21:30:07","slug":"gop-at-brink-of-not-so-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=9853","title":{"rendered":"GOP at Brink of (Not So) Civil War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How far to the Right has the Republican Party gone over the past few years? So far that they now seem to even consider <i>Karl Rove<\/i> a traitor to their cause.<\/p>\n<p>As evidence, take a look at these headlines from Rightwing sites taking Rove to the woodshed this week in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/fundraising\/280785-rove-group-to-launch-new-primary-focused-super-pac\">his recently announced plan<\/a> to form the &#8220;Conservative Victory Project&#8221; Super PAC to keep &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; candidates who Rove feels can&#8217;t win general elections, from winning Republican U.S. Senate primaries in the first place&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/RightBashesKarlRove_MaddowScreenshot_020513.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s some <i>serious<\/i> blow-back from Rove&#8217;s own base &#8212; or what <i>used<\/i> to be his base. Yes, the hard right Brain of Bush is now far &#8220;to the Left&#8221; of his own party. Oh, well. Win by the sword, etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Maddow&#8217;s full segment from Tuesday night, on the GOP&#8217;s attempt to rebrand themselves and the civil war that seems to be ensuing &#8212; particularly as two of the House&#8217;s most extreme Rightwing loons, Rep. Paul Broun (GA) and Rep. Steven King (IA), each plan to seek their party&#8217;s nomination for U.S. Senate in their respective states (Broun is <i>really<\/i> a piece of work, as Maddow details) &#8212; follows below.  Get your popcorn&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"420\" height=\"245\" id=\"msnbc7d9016\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=50712682&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc7d9016\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" FlashVars=\"launch=50712682&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How far to the Right has the Republican Party gone over the past few years? So far that they now seem to even consider Karl Rove a traitor to their cause. As evidence, take a look at these headlines from Rightwing sites taking Rove to the woodshed this week in response to his recently announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[505,596,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea-party","category-election-2014","category-rachel-maddow"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}